{"id":694,"date":"2007-08-09T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:15:29","slug":"on-the-passing-of-holocaust-historian-raul-hilberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"On the Passing of Holocaust Historian Raul Hilberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejewishpress.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/on-passing-of-raul-hilberg.html\">Steven Plaut blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hilberg in recent years had become an apologist and lobbyist on behalf of Neo-Nazi pseudo-scholar Norman Finkelstein, and had repeatedly endorsed Finkelstein&rsquo;s hate-filled &quot;books&quot; and rants against Jews and Israel. Hilberg had been trying to help Finkelstein get tenured at DePaul University. Hilberg had also been increasingly mouthing anti-Israel rhetoric in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Why would the &quot;Dean of Holocaust Studies&quot; go out streetwalking for Norman Finkelstein? Part of the story may have been that he was far more upset that the &quot;Jewish Establishment&quot; did not give him the respect he thought he deserved. Alan Dershowitz suggested to me a more plausible explanation though. Hilberg in recent years was obsessed with engaging in a personal vendetta against Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, a prominent historian of German and of anti-Semitism. Hilberg evidently thought Goldhagen was stealing Hilberg&rsquo;s own thunder. He attacked Goldhagen endlessly and viciously, in an ad hominem way.<\/p>\n<p>Because Norman Finkelstein also attacked Goldhagen, Hilberg decided to endorse the Fink, in his own Vermont application of the Middle East&rsquo;s slogan holding that the enemy of my enemy being my friend. Hilberg in his last years seemed to have been far more angry at the &quot;Jewish Establishment&quot; than he was at Neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Plaut blogs: Hilberg in recent years had become an apologist and lobbyist on behalf of Neo-Nazi pseudo-scholar Norman Finkelstein, and had repeatedly endorsed Finkelstein&rsquo;s hate-filled &quot;books&quot; and rants against Jews and Israel. Hilberg had been trying to help Finkelstein &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holocaust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}